By Robert Wilonsky May 17, 2001

There are not many stories left buried in James Ellroy's past. In 1996, at the age of 48, he penned his memoirs, in which he paired his life story with that of his dead mother, Jean Ellroy, a nurse found strangled and beaten in the bushes of suburban Los Angeles in 1958, when her son... More >>>

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James Ellroy at 53: "Perspective comes," says one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th--and 21st--century.